Judi Dench

  • Franco Zeffirelli – Tea with Mussolini (1999)

    Franco Zeffirelli1991-2000DramaItalyWar
    Un tè con Mussolini (1999)
    Un tè con Mussolini (1999)

    Starring Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Joan Plowright, Cher, Lily Tomlin, Paolo Seganti.

    From IMDB:
    Semi-autobiographical tale from the early life of director Franco Zeffirelli looks at the illegitimate son (Charlie Lucas as a child, Baird Wallace as the teen) of an Italian businessman. The boy’s mother has died, and he is raised by an Englishwoman (Joan Plowright) in pre-WWII Fascist Italy. Living to each other in Florence, and presided over by an ambassador’s widow (Maggie Smith), a group of Englishwomen live a sheltered existence which they believe is guaranteed personal protection in a tea reception given by Il Duce. However, as war breaks out, the women are interned. Occasionally in this English colony is a wealthy American (Cher), who visits among her travels and marriages to wealthy older men.Read More »

  • David Hare – Wetherby (1985)

    David Hare1981-1990DramaMysteryUnited Kingdom
    Wetherby (1985)
    Wetherby (1985)

    The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.Read More »

  • David Hugh Jones – BBC2 Play of the Week: Langrishe, Go Down (1978)

    Drama1971-1980David Hugh JonesTVUnited Kingdom

    Based on the novel by Aidan Higgins

    In the late 1930s, three reclusive middle-aged spinster sisters live on their run down family estate in Ireland. Otto Beck, a perpetual graduate student from Bavaria with a habit of making pompous declamations, rents the back lodge to work on his esoteric thesis. Imogen Langrishe, the least repressed of the sisters, begins an affair with Otto. Imogen takes the love affair seriously, but Otto just enjoys the cheap lodging and the comfort of Imogen.

    Stars Judi Dench, Jeremy Irons, and Annette CrosbieRead More »

  • Anthony Page – Performance: Absolute Hell (1991)

    Drama1991-2000Anthony PageComedyUnited Kingdom

    “Nothing but drink and sex – drink and sex – one long, never-ending effort to
    escape from reality”. That just about sums up the characters who inhabit
    La Vie en Rose, a nightclub viewed one month after the end of the
    Second World War, which only closes when everyone falls over. Judging by
    its bohemian clientele, one imagines that the club, run by Dame Judi
    Dench’s hard-nosed but beneath the surface sensitive Christine, must
    have been in Soho.Read More »

  • Michael A. Simpson – The Browning Version (1985)

    1981-1990BBCDramaMichael A. SimpsonTVUnited Kingdom

    Andrew Crocker-Harris is an aging classics master at a British public school with only a few days left in his career but who is suddenly forced to confront his own life’s failures. Starring Judi Dench, Michael Kitchen, John Woodvine, Ian Holm. Directed by Michael A. Simpson. Originally broadcast December 31, 1985.Read More »

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